Posted by alexandra_k on December 1, 2005, at 5:23:05
In reply to Re:, posted by alexandra_k on December 1, 2005, at 5:11:18
i don't know...
i'm just talking really...
i think...
there is a lot more work that needs to be done on how much emotion and reason do come apart...
and on how much the two pathways do / can interact...the 'primary' / 'secondary' distinction has come into question too...
it was thought there were a number of 'primary' emotions and that 'secondary' emotions just were 'primary' emotions + cognitive distortions (though I'd prefer to replace those with 'judgements' - which aren't really a matter of logic and whose truth conditions... are rather questionable... - i guess)
but... while that might be right you can't say that anger (for example) is a primary emotion (thus not a secondary emotion) because it seems to occur as both... And same for shame, that can be primary too... So... I think how much reason and emotion interact... Is probably a matter of degree...
But sometimes... They don't seem to interact so much as work in opposition...
(Maybe interaction is deescalating of negative emotions? While opposition is escalating?)I'm just talking really...
I don't know.
Ruminating...
I guess...
It is trauma.
But I don't know what it is best for me to do to try and get past it...Seems to me like if I don't spend that time ruminating...
Then the images / feelings etc will just be more intrusive during the day...
That my ruminating defuses them
So they aren't as intrusive during the day...Is that right do people think?
Or...
Is ruminating only keeping them alive?I don't know...
poster:alexandra_k
thread:575153
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